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By Chen,Wen-hung/Taiwan e-Sports League
The e-Sport industry is more than a “new emerging sport” as recognized by many countries. Most importantly, the business opportunity and chance to develop new technology brought to you by e-Sport are all heading to the next out-breaking growth stage. It has a bright future! In Taiwan, e-Sport has an enormous number of players and groups of audiences. People have already established the e-Sport Alliance and e-Sport Association to participate in international tournaments in Taiwan. Many critical IT industry factories also collaborate with e-Sport serving as a key point for promotion. It is obvious that private business has already stepped out by walking in step as a pioneer. To look into the future, the government can set the tone for the e-Sport industry first by establishing it in a correct position in the government-coaching unit or to formulate e-Sport regulations to encourage the software and hardware industry. It may extend to e-Sport HR development. Or else, it may help the industry to upgrade themselves by taking a competitive position with global advantage!

By Liang,Shih-yu/U-ACG
The rise of e-Sport depends on the cooperation of some pre-requisites including video games and computer technology, network speed and business models. The current e-Sport industry remained as a by-product of some specific commercial game companies. It reveals a power with multiple mountain peaks with a changing business model and the rise and fall of the game market. The Taipei city government shall play an active leadership role to perfect the career planning for got-talent contestants and relevant complementary measures, and encourage manufacturer and business model investors to think mainly about the e-Sport, and to cooperate with other relevant digital cultural and arts industries. It certainly can make Taipei City become one of the capacity core and export centers in the global game industry.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The Department of Economic Development Taipei City Government shared bountiful results on its venture business in the Project of Subsidies & Incentives for Taipei Industry. The government ran through 215 projects in 2015. The verified amount of incentives and subsidies is 0.27 billion, which creates a new high in the number of its subsidized cases throughout these years. Currently, Taipei City Government posed an attitude to “let the private business go first and the government will support it” to actively offer assistance in the development of the e-Sport industry. Among the applications of the project of subsidies and incentives, many game business owners received real subsidies for funding. They also invited some creative new venture business from the subsidy manufacturers to participate in the exhibition for some start-up-related activities. They hope this could be a way to help the business owner expand its international collaboration to increase international visibility. In this edition, we have selected some high-quality e-Sport manufacturers to share with you, including X-Legend Entertainment, iDT Digital, Kooco, and Zen Tech, which are all game corporations of this kind. Many expect that more new venture business owners would congregate in Taipei City to run a start-up.

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
The torch of the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade Fair was lit up in its place of origin Paris, France. After that, people passed on the torch to Taipei City, and a torch cruise began in the surroundings of the city government hall and Taipei 101. Taipei City Mayor Wen-je Ko was the representative to welcome the troop leader of the Universiade Torch Troop Bing-wan Zhao. Since all activities of the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade kept commencing, this international fair had carried the main engine of this program of a “four year great leap” for Taipei City on its shoulders. Many expect that Taiwan can establish friendship with every country through this great sports event to promote the spirit for national sports, to promote city reconstruction, citizen participation and cultural elevation. Furthermore, it may increase international visibility for Taiwan and Taipei City through international sports exchange and skills competition to motivate the glamor of Taipei city so that more people can know Taipei is a place to be proud of in Taiwan!

By Huang Nuan-yun/TIER
With the ripple effect created by the global professional e-Sport league, the 2015 global game output value has reached 91.5 billion according to an international marketing survey institution report. Among them, mobile games outperformed the other categories. Moreover, statistics from the biggest global game video streaming platform, Twich showed that Taipei city is the city with the largest global traffic ranking. Its e-Sport population, audience or consumption may more or less sustain the development of some e-Sport related industries. Therefore, starting from September 2015, the Taipei City Government has been promoting a series of campaigns for the meeting including an e-Sport seminar, e-Sport World Cup broadcast and promo general assembly with the City Mayor in attendance to promote the slogan called “Taipei empowered e-Sport to move on to championship and second place”. Many expected that powered by government officials, Taipei can support the development of the e-Sport industry, and supplement the e-Sport industry with new motivation through a division of labor among each agency for negotiation.

Construct Smart Municipal Administration; Expect a Citizen’s Good Life

Jul 14, 2017

By Wu,Hsiang-lin/Jotangi
The smart city construction base comes from a fact to see if the government can really solve the problems that most citizens encounter in their everyday life. Faced with the trend of Internet of Things (IoT) and data economy, it needs to build trust in every citizen using the power of private enterprises through collaboration and participation. Via an integration of every technology and sensory orientation, the government may exert its competitive advantages to enhance value-added applications of each municipal administration. Taipei City citizen’s kindness usually makes the foreign tourists feel at home. However, the 1999 hotline of the city government provides considerate service and it is obvious to everyone. Therefore, the government provides a wireless network infrastructure and constructs a new vision for all people in terms of everyday needs including food, clothing, housing, transportation, education and entertainment as well as social security and energy consumption management through a citizen membership platform. It can definitely make Taipei City a new exemplar model with the breadth of internationalization and localization as a smart city. The government can expect a better life for its citizens in the future.

Smart City Local Practice and Value-Added App Create Business Opportunities

Jul 14, 2017

By Chieh,Hung-nien/Lin,Yung-chu
The Smart Handheld Device (SHD) has become a trend. It is also a chance for information software vendors (ISV) and enterprises in other domains to add to the business opportunities generated by hardware vendors in the electronics industry. Its key point depends on the App on SHD that triggers the new next consumption revolution. Therefore, using this location based system (LBS) establishment on the city Wi-Fi value-added platform can allow future online or offline connections and interactions so that information and communication technology (ICT) can combine with commercial services to create more business opportunities and applications via a more convenient service model. If the future city can make use of this concept of cloud service and Internet of Things (IoT), it can effectively increase value added and new business opportunities. Furthermore, it can effectively reduce government expenditure and subsidy, and build a creative consumer-shopping model.

By Lin,Feng-cheng/Shen,Yang-ting/Fang,Yueh-min/Chou,Tien-ying
Smart city has a main core value based on its “humanity.” Its features include pervasive sensory feelings, ubiquitous interconnected features, thorough and comprehensive intelligence that actually works, and sustainable innovations based on human beings. Smart city can effectively plan and manage city resources, public services and various activities as well as its economic, social or environmental influence during the process of collecting, tracking, integrating, sharing and analyzing all city resource information. Furthermore, it can reinforce city competitiveness and attract talents and investments to help the economy to transform and realize a sustainable economic development for its city.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei International Design Award takes Taipei City as the convergence platform for creative design to discover creative designs with business opportunity’s potentials. This award makes use of the idea of a universal design to improve the city’s economy, community, environment and cultural development. It provides the user with a more harmonious, safer and convenient life. In addition to the design competition, it also holds design forums, design seminars, and other important design activities. Furthermore, it also holds a creative start-ups int’l exchange program to select excellent enterprises and provide a completely different assistance and resources package in order to create a good-quality eco-environment for start-up businesses so that the startups in Taipei City may have a chance to be displayed on the international stage.

By Liu,Wei-ting/TIER
The Taipei City Government connects the idea of “design” with technology industry domain and establishes the “Taipei Co-Space” inside the public service building of the Neihu Science Park to provide a co-working space for micro-enterprise’s entrepreneurs or freelance workers. People who work in-house may discuss, do brainstorming and collaborate by exchanging ideas together via this built platform. They can create innovative commercial thoughts or boosts new business models to create endless business opportunities.